On Thu, 1 Aug 2024 18:36:29 +0100, Luca Boccassi <bl...@debian.org> wrote: >On Thu, 1 Aug 2024 at 18:16, Marc Haber <mh+debian-de...@zugschlus.de> wrote: >> >> On Thu, 1 Aug 2024 12:23:43 +0100, Luca Boccassi <bl...@debian.org> >> wrote: >> >The vast majority of people who >> >are forced to use emails do so for work via a >> >work-mediated/administered interface that tries to make it somewhat >> >tolerable, like Outlook or Gmail. >> >> This must be the least accurate statement about Outlook that I have >> ever read. Outlook does not have a single feature that makes email >> more tolerable in any way. Au contraire. The feature called threading >> is incompatible with the rest of the world and not even very useful in >> an outlook-only environment, the search function finds everything but >> the mail you're looking for, and Outlook's disability to quote >> decently is notorious for having led to the whole world generating >> only top-posting replies. >> >> Outlook is essentially responsible for making email so much worse >> today than it was in the 1990s. >> >> Even Salsa's and github's praised way to communitate in an MR is >> VASTLY inferior to a decently threading mail client like mutt or even >> Thunderbird. >> >> I violently disagree with the rest of the message as well and am not >> willing to spoil the rest of my day by replying in detail. I'd prefer >> learning a bit more Slowfoxtrot later tonight. > >Again, please understand that outside of the bubble of tech nerds of >the 70s/80s, saying out loud phrases such as "The only right way to >collaborate is reading and writing emails is in my terminal" means >getting looked at like being a dinosaur just escaped from a museum. >The rest of the universe just doesn't work like that, sorry. There's >nothing wrong with being a dinosaur for an individual of course, we >will all become one at some point, but optimizing for making dinosaurs >happy from the simple perspective of demographics is a sure way for a >project to slowly slide into irrelevance. The fact that the project >membership has just about managed to remain flat while the tech sector >absolutely exploded in size should send shivers down everyone's >spines.
Now that you have added personal insult while not adding anything for the cause, I recuse myself from continuing this situation. I am happy that I don't need to collaborate with you in my Debian efforts. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Rhein-Neckar, DE | Beginning of Wisdom " | Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 6224 1600402
